Rain Rain Rain!

It’s been raining and raining and raining. We couldn’t go out for the opening of the eco hut or go out for a game, cause it’s still raining. Yesterday we got to go home early and they closed our school early. Our mum came to get us early.
We saw the slip on Maori Road and Constable John came to make the traffic go slow and not drive into the mud. The mud was everywhere, all over the road and our carpark is flooded, with a lake. There is a slip behind Victory Room and our playground adventure has trees fallen down the bank. It is soaked and saturated too.

Paige and Georgia and Sophie.

Yulia

Yulia came to our school


We had a special day...no reading or maths or writing stories all day.
First Yulia came to our school and told us about being a big singing pop star. She sang us a song and we asked her questions. We sang her a song, it was Hey hey sister. She is going to England to sing. Yulia came from Russia and she didn’t speak any English but she does now. Tinneka

Christmas Cooking

On Wednesday we all went to the hall to do christmas cooking. Lots of mums and Nana Jill came to help us. Belqui came too. We were in groups with Georgina, Steff, Rebecca, Nana Jill and Judi to do our cooking. We made gingerbread shapes and cooked them, then we decorated them. I did stripes and squiggles and silver balls.
We cut out lots of stars and put icing and silver balls on them. One group made fruit kebabs with pineapple, strawberries and marshmallows. They were yummy. After we did the cooking we worked with Rebecca to make christmas decorations for the Christmas tree in the hall. It looked good and colourful too.
We ate all the food.
Matt and Jazmyn

Greetings from us to you

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all the people who have worked with us, visited us, helped us with transport, been involved with our sports coaching and games, written us letters and replied to our letters.

Tapawera

Tapawera

Two weeks ago mum, Judi ,Tyler and I went to Tapawera .
My house is brown I have a sheep, some horses , a pig called Burnese, a donkey, chickens and I’m also going to get a goat.
I am going to be leaving Auckland Point School to go to Tapawera Area School. I will go to a new school. I have already met my principal, at my school that I will be going to. Ms Shearer is my teacher, but I didn’t meet her.
I think that I will have a really great time at Tapawera. Matt (typed by Lucy)

Visit to Te Papa in Wellington

The most interesting thing about visiting Te Papa is the giant squid. It didn't have it skin on, so you can see it's meat. There's a video you can watch which tells you how big it was, how strong it was and where it was caught.

The squid is in a glass box.

I went in the earthquake house, it was freaky!! I walked on the giant floor mat of New Zealand . I started on Auckland and I ended up on Stewart Island. It was cool. I went all around New Zealand on the floor mat.

I saw a brand new silver car. People were admiring it. I didn't see the price.

I went into another room and I saw a whale's heart, it was a fake one but you could go inside it.

In the Dinosaur Hall, there are two dinosaurs stuck in concrete, I never seen a dinosaur before only in books.

It was exciting going to Te Papa.

By Victoria age 7 and nearly 8

APS & HIra School Tabloid Day

Manaia and the story he wrote about Tabloid Sports Day.
Victoria crosses the plank on the obstacle course....pretty tricky!
Rueben and team 4 pull on their end of the rope in the tug of war. They pulled harder!!
Paige and team 11 wait for instructions to start the hoop relay.
Team 3 and Matt listening to Lynnet,who was a parent helper.
Noah competes in the obstacle course.
Our class had a sneaky practice at this activity so we were really good at it.

TE PAPA

The most interesting thing about visiting Te Papa is the giant squid. It didn't have it skin on so you can see it's meat. There's a video you can watch which tells you how big it was, how strong it was and where it was caught.

The squid is in a glass box.

I went in the earthquake house, it was freaky!! I walked on the giant floor mat of New Zealand . I started on Auckland and I ended up on Stewart Island. It was cool. I went all around New Zealand on the floor mat.

I saw a brand new siver car. People were admiring it. I didn't see the price.

I went into another room and I saw a Whale's heart, it was a fake one but you could go inside it.

In the Dinosaur Hall there are two dinosaurs stuck in concrete, I never seen dinosaur before only in books.

It was exciting going to Te Papa.

By Victoria age 7 and neally 8

Life Bus comes to APS

The Life Education Bus was parked at our school last week. All the classes visited Victoria at the bus for 2 lessons. At lunchtime on Friday, Harold came out to join us. The little kids were very excited.

Our Mallard Duck returns to school

For years now a duck and her drake have been visiting Auckland Point school. Yesterday she brought along her 12 ducklings. I spotted her taking them on a tour of the school, after class.
When I approached her with the camera, she called them close to her and she put her head down and she threatened my bare toes. She was saying, "Back Off, keep away from my ducklings!"
I left them with a tote tray of soggy left over lunch.
It was all gone this morning.... and so was mum duck and her family. I hope she didn't cross Haven Road!
Jack Thompson. Nov. 25th

Tideline at APS

On Friday Judy Keylock came to our school. She taught us how to do some new painting skills.

Georgia and I used blue, red and yellow for the stencils.

The class painted the tideline that is going to go up around the school, which will have the clay tiles of creatures and faces on it. The tiles went in a kiln and got fired.

I worked with Georgia.

I painted stencils, I had a special paint brush that you dabbed the paint on with it.

In the end Georgia's and my tideline turned out to be awesome! I was very proud of it.

By Sophie

Tideline at APS

Judy Keylock came to show us some new patterns we could do on the tideline.

Some of the things we did were painting, blotting, stensilling, detailing. We even used some pens to draw on the paint to make patterns in it. We also used sponges to smudge the paint.

Sahria OBrien. 8

Tideline at APS

On Friday Judy Keylock came to School. We painted some wood off the wall outside our class. First we painted then more painting and next stencils. The first colours were orange, green, white, red, silver, purple and blue. The second colours were dark blue, orange, blue, red and pink Then we used the stencils. We all enjoyed it. In the end, we all had paint on our hands.

Tideline at APS

Today Judy keylock came and taught us art skills. She told us how to paint the planks, layer by layer. First Georgia and I used light blue, then red, yellow and then we used other colours. Ours was very colourful.

Tideline at APS

Judy Keylock is a good artist at painting. She gave us a piece of wood and we painted it white. Next Matt and Noah and me brushed blue, just in parts. After that we decorated our piece of wood with patterns. Ours was white and blue and yellow. Judy Keylock said "Thats good".

Marlin. 7

Kapa Haka

String games and stick games in the hall at kapa Haka.

Jazmyn was very quick to learn how to make a cat's cradle. Lucy and Whaitiri had great timing with the sticks.

Lost in books!

Caught with noses in a great book. Alex,Manaia,Summer, Samantha and Whaitiri love to read.

Karin from Switzterland

Karin from Switzerland

Karin is a very nice lady and she is really kind and really helpful. She is full of bright ideas and good sportsmen ship. She always included people in all her games .

She loves to ski and hike and she loves to bike around the mountains. Karin has the rhythm in her soul cause she moves to the music. She liked to do Jump Jam. Her favorite food is chocolate, sausages sandwiches and Swiss cheese. She loved our school especially the kids.

She has gorgeous blond hair and tanned white skin and she is really slim and she has beautiful blue eyes. Karin always wears purple clothes and always wears jeans with her scarf around her neck and she always has a smile on her face.

Written by her friend Whaitiri

Twilight Fiesta

On Friday night there was our school "Twilight Fiesta". There was lots of stuff there. Some of the stalls and games were:

baking stalls, lolly stall, pizza stall, white elepahant stall, used clothing stall, christmas decorations stall, vegetable stall drinks stall, fish sandwiches, hot chips, sausage sizzle, baked potatoes, Spanish food and lots of others.

There were many activities for kids and adults to do like, little hot rods, plate throwing, face painting, jump jam, bouncy castle, bikes, raffles and lots more things.

This Is Karin and Belgui doing the narchos
This is Jack Thompson on his decorated bike
Duncan and Judi helped on the sausages and the fish sandwiches BBQ.
This is Beat (Bay Art) doing the helium balloons. He was good at it!
THE BOUNCY castle COST ONLY A GOLD COIN DONATION FOR A STAMP ON THE HAND THAT YOU CAN COME BACK WHEN EVER YOU WANT .
The horse that was meant to be a cow. She picked the right spot.... it was my mums spot and she won $1000.
This is the big banner that said the details for the "TWILIGHT FIESTA"

St Vincent Room Kids picked bunches of lavender from the big bush outside our room, as a fund raiser for the Twilight Fiesta. Our selling point was... Lavender helps you to sleep ( a bunch under the pillow will help you sleep all night!) and it keeps away the moths ( a bunch in your wardrobe keeps the moths out of your clothes). We hope it works! Karin lay on the carpet with the St v. Kids!! Can you spot her?

At the fiesta, Dylan and I went on the go carts. I went on the go carts by myself once and that cost $5, but the rest of the rides I went with Dylan. Dylan was crashing into every one. I was pushing the cone over, with my hands as I went by.

I really liked the Fiesta because there was heaps of things to do. Noah

At the fiesta my mum and dad helped to do cooking. My dad helped with the juicies, my mum helped with the nachos, it was beans which were real good. It had no vegetables in it at all. Mum and dad gave me money to spend. Mum gave me 5 dollars and dad gave me 2 dollars so I really had over $20. I bought STUFF!

by Paige